Many dungeon encounters scale with the party's level, but end bosses aren't very dynamic. Anyway, the Skinner Murders quest in the Bridge District is like 70k exp (more if you disarm the traps on the second floor) for walking, talking and spending like 80 gold. Oh yeah and +1 rep.
In general, it makes sense to start in Athkatla and spiral your way out to the wilderness. Having said that, there are certain quests in the city I would definitely save for later. Fight Liches, get stitches.
In terms of the potential stronghold quests (1 for each class, some are combined to one stronghold and there are 8 total), I would rank the quests in this order from highest to lowest difficulty:
Actually, with the right tactics and items, Liches are easily done, and grant the best XP and some of the best items in the game.
I, however, would suggest stealing all the merchants in Athkatla blind, then using the Shadow Thieves' fence to generate boucoup dineros and then purchase some of the more...pricier items. Make sure to steal literally tons of missles (arrows, bolts, slingstones, etc). That will save lots of headaches and pains later for your ranged specialists (at least until you can get things that do not require ammunition).
Then off you go on Quests! You should be able to do most of them cheesey-easy.
Easy: Circus Graveyard quests and tomb raiding* Bridge Murders Pebble Crusher Defeat Slavers/Licor * Stick to the single room tombs and save before entering
I mostly agree with the above list. Though the Unseeing Eye can be the hardest on the list, or one of Medium difficulty, depending on if u can find/be willing to use a very specific item.
*Feels proud I managed to do the Planar Sphere very early in my first blind playthrough* lol
I haven't tried the new NPCs in BG2:EE, but I've heard that their quests are harder compared to the old content, though I wonder if that might just be a consequence of veteran players being unfamiliar with it, as opposed to having most other content memorised by heart...
The only I've tried so far was the first Hexxat quest. It was probably medium difficulty mainly due to enemies requiring magic weapons and the boss fight.
@Heindrich A mixture of both I think. Of course going in blind increases difficulty but I found that the e.g. the AI scripts seemed better - mages running away all over the place instead of standing still to get pounded to death. Especially Neera's quest gave me some trouble when I went very early the first time. Rasaad also has a pretty tough fight with lots of enemy potion users and backstabs. Porobably they learned from SCS
The new character quests are very mixed. Some subparts have conditions so depending on when they trigger the fights can be tough. Or if you find all side quest they can turn from hard to medium or even easy.
Dorn Easy/Mid/Easy Hexxat Easy/Medium/Medium to hard (mostly because of the nasty finger faces) Rasaad Medium all the way. The last fight can be hard if you do not have a certain AOE spell. Neera Easy/Easy/Medium to Hard depending if you did the side quests in the middle part.
Jaheira has two quests. The first (curse) is relatively easy. The second with the harpers is medium because the fights can be challenging.
Whilst I agree with most comments, I think it is difficult to sort a quest list. Reason being that -Some battles are modified to fit your XP level. -Your npc profiles may make some quests easier. And the wanted equipment may influence your path. -Your own class does not equally match the various quests.
Things are different if you use tactics modules (e.g. SCS, weimer's tactics, aTweaks ...) as they objectively increase the difficulty of some archetypes (troll, beholders, mages ... undead, vampires, demonic creatures).
I am curious : do you stick to your sorted list in both modded and unmodded games ?
Whilst I agree with most comments, I think it is difficult to sort a quest list. Reason being that -Some battles are modified to fit your XP level. -Your npc profiles may make some quests easier. And the wanted equipment may influence your path. -Your own class does not equally match the various quests.
Things are different if you use tactics modules (e.g. SCS, weimer's tactics, aTweaks ...) as they objectively increase the difficulty of some archetypes (troll, beholders, mages ... undead, vampires, demonic creatures).
I am curious : do you stick to your sorted list in both modded and unmodded games ?
I think of them in general groups/tiers rather than an enumerated order. While some quests scale with your level if isn't enough to make the circus more difficult than a dragon (unmodded). I frequently change the order within tiers (and occasionally between tiers) if I feel I need something. The most common reason I jump around is to recruit party members as early as possible.
Just don't expect Nalia's Keep to be easy with SCS installed. Spirit trolls! Spirit trolls everywhere!
(For the record, SCS or regular, I generally find Windspear the hardest. That undead room has given me trouble quite a few times. And the last boss... owch!)
Whilst I agree with most comments, I think it is difficult to sort a quest list. Reason being that -Some battles are modified to fit your XP level. -Your npc profiles may make some quests easier. And the wanted equipment may influence your path. -Your own class does not equally match the various quests.
Things are different if you use tactics modules (e.g. SCS, weimer's tactics, aTweaks ...) as they objectively increase the difficulty of some archetypes (troll, beholders, mages ... undead, vampires, demonic creatures).
I am curious : do you stick to your sorted list in both modded and unmodded games ?
I am playing on IOS so i believe i cant mod my game sadly. Or can i?
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This thread is packed with advice if this is your first playthrough, including a list of easy early-quests.
1. Windspear Hill (paladin stronghold)
2. Planar Sphere (mage/sorcerer stronghold)
3. Temple Ruins (ranger stronghold)
4. Planar Prison (bard stronghold)
5. Unseeing Eye (cleric stronghold)
6. Druid Grove (druid stronghold)
7. De Arnise Keep (fighter/monk/barbarian stronghold)
8. Mae'Var's Thief Guild (thief stronghold)
I, however, would suggest stealing all the merchants in Athkatla blind, then using the Shadow Thieves' fence to generate boucoup dineros and then purchase some of the more...pricier items. Make sure to steal literally tons of missles (arrows, bolts, slingstones, etc). That will save lots of headaches and pains later for your ranged specialists (at least until you can get things that do not require ammunition).
Then off you go on Quests! You should be able to do most of them cheesey-easy.
thief is easy to.
then fighter stronghold.
Easy:
Circus
Graveyard quests and tomb raiding*
Bridge Murders
Pebble Crusher
Defeat Slavers/Licor
* Stick to the single room tombs and save before entering
Medium:
Thieves Guild
Tradesmeet
De'Arnise Keep
Harder:
Temple Ruins
Planar Prison
Planar Sphere
Unseeing Eye
Windspear Hill
Can anyone comment on the relative difficulty of the new NPC quests?
*Feels proud I managed to do the Planar Sphere very early in my first blind playthrough* lol
I haven't tried the new NPCs in BG2:EE, but I've heard that their quests are harder compared to the old content, though I wonder if that might just be a consequence of veteran players being unfamiliar with it, as opposed to having most other content memorised by heart...
Dorn Easy/Mid/Easy
Hexxat Easy/Medium/Medium to hard (mostly because of the nasty finger faces)
Rasaad Medium all the way. The last fight can be hard if you do not have a certain AOE spell.
Neera Easy/Easy/Medium to Hard depending if you did the side quests in the middle part.
Jaheira has two quests. The first (curse) is relatively easy. The second with the harpers is medium because the fights can be challenging.
circus, slavers slums, bridge murders, harper quest, graveyard quest (the murdered child etc), trademeet (druid.etc), thief, fighter, bard, mage, temple quests, ranger, windspear hills
-Some battles are modified to fit your XP level.
-Your npc profiles may make some quests easier. And the wanted equipment may influence your path.
-Your own class does not equally match the various quests.
Things are different if you use tactics modules (e.g. SCS, weimer's tactics, aTweaks ...) as they objectively increase the difficulty of some archetypes (troll, beholders, mages ... undead, vampires, demonic creatures).
I am curious : do you stick to your sorted list in both modded and unmodded games ?
(For the record, SCS or regular, I generally find Windspear the hardest. That undead room has given me trouble quite a few times. And the last boss... owch!)
You can, sort of:
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/16695/amazing-discovery-overriding-cre-files-without-override-folder-and-jailbreak/p1